Social Media Monster Frequently Asked Questions
Is Social Media Monster a true story?
The short answer is no, the film is not true.
The longer answer is that the best propaganda is a massive ball of lies wrapped around small bits of truth. The film deploys unreliable witnesses, manipulative editing, false narratives, logical fallacies, exclusion of events and data, skewing the timeline, and blatant fabrications of reality. Social Media Monster reaches a conclusion that leaves viewers with a sense of helpless cognitive dissonance, refusing to accept that the series of events depicted in the film is even real.
Peter John Ross instructs viewers that he’s taking them through the looking glass, then leaves them stranded in a rabbit hole of his own madness. This site hopes to aid viewers in learning real facts, rescuing them from Ross’s dystopian wonderland.
Was the woman really assaulted at the IHOP?
Yes. A long standing tactic used by the director is to make a statement, then waive around unrelated police records.
Nowhere in the police reports Ross used to bolster his story does it question whether the domestic violence situation occurred. In fact, that part of the story was never even in question until the film was released.
Ross claims he interviewed witnesses (plural) but the film shows only one person was interviewed, Rachel Hayner, who can be shown to have repeatedly made false statements.
An example is a screenshot in the film where she says I didn’t chase down the police but Ross’s own deep dive content, the police reports, shows that I did.
Astute viewers will notice that she’s not present in any of the IHOP footage. Hayner also claims I “got in the waitresses face” and “screamed” at her but the cell phone footage shows that this did not occur.
In reality, Rachel called 911, described the domestic violence incident, in detail, stated she witnessed it, but the director never secured a copy of her 911 call.
She is, 100%, not credible in her retelling of the story.
Ross’s Frequently Asked Questions states, “The police interviewed over a dozen witnesses,” which is true but these interviews were conducted by the Office of Professional Standards, officer Dan Sweiger.
The production never obtained the results of this investigation and instead cites the later discredited police reports.
Did you really move to St. Joseph because the condo matched your furniture?
Yes. Unfortunately, two months earlier, I’d purchase $20,000 worth of custom furniture that was chosen to match a rehabbed industrial space (exposed brick, brushed cement floors, exposed ceiling).
The story I told about leaving Des Moines is 100% true and I can prove it by showing messages from my former landlord which the director made no effort to contact or obtain a statement.
The court case for writ of possession was not a standard eviction and was only obtained via my landlord so they could legally re-rent the place.
I was already living in St. Joseph long before that case took place. I was not even aware if the court proceedings until the production dig it up a year later. The case was never entered into my credit history due the the severance agreement we’d made.
Did you threaten to blow up a nuclear power plant?
No. The e-mails which were fully published on Scumbagged.com, do not make any threat to blow up anything. Three police agencies, two local one federal, investigated and found it to be a hoax.
You’ll note that nowhere in the film or in the deep dive for the film is there any proof of the FBI investigation.
At no time during this alleged investigation was I ever interviewed or contacted by the FBI.
I never released the name of the second police agency. The then chief of North Perry Police stated that he was never contacted for a statement for the film.
The threat actually made in the e-mails was to use a potato gun to fire rubber duckies into the cooling pools.
The film also uses the word terrorism in the place of ecoterrorism, which are two different things. It is believed that Ross fabricated the incident exclusively for the film.
Are you a filmmaker, activist and journalist?
Yes. My filmmaking is sourced by ABC News. My activism is sourced by Roanoke Times. My military leaks are featured in New York Times. Ross nit picks and says ToxicWasteSites.org didn’t exist at the time of production, but SuperfundResearch.org and ToxicWasteSites.org are the same re-branded .org, so it did exist and he’s just splitting hairs.
You can watch my film Blame Reagan, on this website
In fact, when Myers appears and says, “It’s a year and half later,” ToxicWasteSites.org existed
The .org is statutorily a sole proprietorship in the State of California and was never owned by Matthew Berdyck LLC.
At no time have ever represented the .org as a non-profit.
